(Um, I'm writing on NY Mag's Daily Intel today and I tried as hard as I could to make a case for putting this there, but there was just no way. But I had to share it, so here it is.) Check it out, some people caught a shark in the Everglades and gradually realized it had a huge (other shark's?) ...

They've started back up six months after the end of season 2, which was the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 62, so that means they're in April "right now," and have a whole summer and most of fall to get through before JFK, but it WILL HAPPEN this season, Matt Weiner has said so, if I remember right.
Personally though, I can't wait for '64, with LBJ's "Daisy" campaign ad. And, you know, Civil Rights and everything. Good times!

Prediction: the next episode of Mad Men, "Love Among The Ruins," will be action-packed. That's the only conclusion we can come to from the aggressively boring sneak-peek scene AMC put out to publicize it: That's the only scene they could show! I'm so excited! Is it November 22nd yet?

I was there last time he played in Tallahassee, it was like my second show here. He was pretty good, but a bunch of assholes kept yelling "NO CHILDREN!" trying to get him to play it. I like "No Children," but I'm glad he didn't cave to the assholes' demands. Anyway after the second encore, when he walked offstage, he walked right by me and I'm pretty sure he was crying. All in all it was an awesome show, and an awesome night.

The Mountain Goats (John Darnielle) are/is doing a big huge international tour for the new album coming out Oct 6 which is about the BIBLE (!!) Which is appropriate, because John Darnielle is God. I just got my tickets for December 2nd at The Bell House, and now it seems I will spend the rest of ...

It's week two of HBO's summer of new documentaries every Monday night, and tonight's premiere is the much-anticipated Sundance hit Prom Night In Mississippi, about the segregated proms in the small town of Charleston, and the resistance Morgan Freeman came up against when he offered to pay for o...

I'm fully aware of how terrible that show is, but I find it totally fascinating in a really condescending way.
Also I get this sadistic kind of schadenfreude when bad things happen to Carrie & Friends and they whine about it like the weak, self-absorbed monsters the show's creators (and, apparently, millions of actual women in this country) seem to think all women are.
...Does that make me sexist? Am I sexist now? Fuck.

But man, I really do. On Videogum: I want to spoil the SATC movie but nobody who would read this or VG would care about that movie. It's sadder than thinking fleet week is sexy or that that reference is fresh.

The good news is you can avoid seeing ads in gmail. The bad news is you have to end all of your emails with "ps: suicide death 9/11 murder." I played with this a little to see how far it goes back, tragedy-wise. "Ps: the holocaust" works, but "Ps slavery" delivers ads. Google also thinks we've go...

All those not-so-subtly racist remarks by the Senators in the Sotomayor hearings are a lot less surprising after knowing about this. I bet a lot of those segregationist white parents also think Obama isn't a natural born US citizen.

It's week two of HBO's summer of new documentaries every Monday night, and tonight's premiere is the much-anticipated Sundance hit Prom Night In Mississippi, about the segregated proms in the small town of Charleston, and the resistance Morgan Freeman came up against when he offered to pay for o...

I feel like a big part of being a professional photographer is to make up long, pretentious speeches about how your idea is creative and metaphorical, when all you really want to say "Hey, wouldn't it look really cool if [finish this sentence]?"

I can't believe how actually interesting this behind-the-scenes of the Mad Men Season 3 poster photoshoot is! (Unfortunately the pee question is never answered -- or addressed -- but let's just assume he did because it's funnier that way): I like at the end when they explain that Don Draper bei...

This went up on Everything Is Terrible today. It's a math rap. I wrote a math rap too! So probably like most kids in 1990, I was assigned to write a math rap in the seventh grade, but I hated rap (And country! Right, other former closed-minded seventh graders?) But my favorite thing in the ...

The gentleman in charge of last week's Anthrocon spoke on an insider panel about how furries can protect themselves from being accurately portrayed as sexual fetishists in the press. As usual, they're not fooling anybody, but the fun is in watching them try: The doctor's lab coat must be...

When I worked at Videogum I was a little bit obsessed with the mysterious trailer for a movie called After Last Season, which opened in a few cities for a few days last month. A lot of other people got obsessed with ALS too, as evidenced by this video birthday invite parody made by some funny peo...

Don Draper should not be showing so much emotion! That is not the Don Draper I know and love. You lie, fifties hats, you lie! Also he shouldn't be so obsessed with the past. Get out of here and move forward. It never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened. Duh.

There's now a trailer for Stolen Lives, the mystery/thriller/sad movie Jon stars in with Josh Lucas (hott!): And yesterday Jon played in the All Star Celebrity baseball game thingy. Here he is at bat: Soon Jon will start his Mad Men Season 3 publicity tour. So that should be fun.

The gentleman in charge of last week's Anthrocon spoke on an insider panel about how furries can protect themselves from being accurately portrayed as sexual fetishists in the press. As usual, they're not fooling anybody, but the fun is in watching them try: The doctor's lab coat must be...

It was only a matter of time before Hot Topic started selling Keyboard Cat tshirts, but since keyboard cat meme creator and Videogum tipster extraordinaire Brad O'Farrell gets part of the money, let's make this the next Frankie Says Relax. Years from now, it would be pretty hilarious if the sum...

Man, I am 21 and I am older than this 23 year old. Oh, my misspent youth, gone forever! I didn't even realize it, I thought I had more time...
What are we talking about again?
Anyway, time to get ready for bingo. I'm feeling lucky tonight. Maybe I'll finally win the $25 gift certificate for Ole Times Country Buffet! Fingers crossed. Ouch, my arthritis! Where are my glasses? Gonna rain soon...

A 23 year old who sends me links to funny videos just sent me a link to a funny video: Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" video. He said: "I didn't realize it was the same Paula from American Idol." WE ARE ALL VERY OLD.

I could watch footage of charismatic Christians freaking out because their leader told them to constantly for the rest of my life: The redhead at 2:05 is really stretching the limits of the medium. Via Everything Is Terrible.

I don't know why this isn't out there yet, but I guess the internet has been distracted this week. Last weekend a local news reporter in DC tried to interview bloggers standing outside the Real World house in Dupont Circle, and a Real World cameraman came out and stuck his camera in her face to ...

HAHAHAHA. CNN sent a reporter to the anthrocon (furry/plushie convention) in Pittsburgh. The resulting report uses defensive language, but never comes out and says what it is the convention's leaders are trying to stop being associated with: Embedded video from CNN Video Speaking of furries, wh...

One of the year's most anticipated movies, Robert Siegel's Big Fan starring Patton Oswalt, finally has a trailer. If anyone was worried (like I was) that Patton's face and voice are so fully associated with his world view that he could never play anyone but himself, we can all worry no more. SO E...

Hey Videogum people (and the few people who accidentally still have this site on RSS from its more frequently-updated days.) I'm off to some museums today, but first: I'm filling in this week doing New York Mag's Daily Intelligencer blog's gossip monger posts. So today I know a lot of things ab...